Getting the Transcription of a Video from YouTube

August 3rd, 2015

If you don’t exactly know how to obtain the transcript of a YouTube video, you can study these instructions and do it with ease. However, remember that you can only get the transcripts of the videos with closed captioning.

Create the Transcript for a YouTube Video

Open YouTube and select the video that you need. Press the button that says More actions and contains three dots. It is placed together with the Add to and Share buttons:

Select Transcript:

After that, you will see the transcription of all the text under the video: